The Never Trumpers

Lobster Issue 80 (Winter 2020) FREE

[PDF file]: […] he did win the nomination, he would never beat Hillary Clinton. Even so, many leading Republicans, especially those involved in the areas of foreign policy and national security, determined to do their best to stop Trump even if it meant a Clinton victory. Trump was just too dangerous to be allowed into the Oval […]

More on Hess

Lobster Issue 86 (2023) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] wandering around the Renfrewshire farming community prior to being interrogated for two hours in German by the part-time Polish Consul in Glasgow, was actually a disaster in security terms. The worst possible outcome. Certainly, a calamity.16 It would be very unfair to describe as ‘unsupported speculation’ the authors’ recent discoveries in the small Bavarian […]

When the Lights Went Out, and, Strange Days Indeed

Lobster Issue 58 (Winter 2009/2010) FREE

[PDF file]: […] cares); he’s interested in the ‘true Seventies fashion’. Once again we get the Private Eye-cynical hack view of Harold Wilson’s attempts to get an investigation of the security Page 143 Winter 2009/10 Lobster 58 services going: Wilson was paranoid and (using Bernard Donoughue’s diaries as evidence), Marcia Williams was dreadful. ‘The daily drama in […]

Blair Inc. by Francis Beckett, David Hencke and Nick Kochan

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] of what was said behind closed doors. MPs and pressure groups have condemned secret trials but prosecutors claimed the secrecy was justified in the interests of national security, and described it as “an exceptional case”.’ Beckett, Hencke and Kochan have done us a service in trying to pierce the barriers Blair has erected around […]

Apocryphylia

Lobster Issue 66 (Winter 2013) FREE

[PDF file]: […] most noted by his absence. When he eventually surfaced, and was asked for an explanation he apologised and stated that he had been working undercover, for the security services, in the BNP. Nobody believed him. Well we wouldn’t, would we? And perhaps that’s the problem with too many people in UK politics today – […]

The End of the Republican Party: Three ‘Never Trump’ Conservatives on the Trump Presidency

Lobster Issue 77 (Summer 2019) FREE

[PDF file]: […] is not very hopeful. Which brings us to Max Boot’s The Corrosion of Conservatism, by far the best of the three books under review. Boot is a security specialist, the author of a number of books on insurgency and counter-insurgency, most recently a study of Edward Lansdale (The Road Not Taken: Edward Lansdale and […]

The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 76 (Winter 2018) FREE
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[PDF file]: […] Russell wrote about his dealings with Canada’s CSIS in Lobster 65: ‘Canada’s spy agency gone rogue: Prime Minister Harper couldn’t care less’ at . CSIS is Canada’s Security and Intelligence Service. 4 1 affidavit, including detailed testimony on the Zersetzen crimes and their cover up. This sworn testimony also includes considerable 3rd part corroboration […]

Tittle-Tattle

Lobster Issue 70 (Winter 2015) FREE

[PDF file]: […] for all European countries to adopt laws that criminalise Holocaust denial, to create clearer definitions of constitutes racism and antisemitisim, and to oblige governments to pay for security at synagogues and Jewish schools. Writing in The Times today, Mr Blair and Moshe Kantor, a Russian-born Jewish philanthropist and businessman, say that Europe is at […]

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